Etymologies

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home +‎ owner

Examples

So the basic gist of the plan is to help banks and home-livers (I resist the term homeowner because it is simply inaccurate-in the majority of cases, the banks own these homes, not the people who live in them) gently renegotiate a more realistic arrangement.

It tells the prospective homeowner that unless the homeowner is able to build a house that can withstand repeated hurricanes (or frequently rebuild a house that can't) that building the house is probably not advisable or affordable.

It was what they called a homeowner's Preservation Corporation idea, and that was to take highly-distressed mortgages, actually before they quite go into foreclosure, and buy them on bulk at an auction, at discounted prices.

When a homeowner is "underwater" and willing and able to make payments on a rewritten mortgage with reduced principal, why would the loan servicer decline, and throw the home into a foreclosure that ravages its value?